‘Wait here’: Father leaves young son alone on Mount Fuji ... for eight hours

The boy was found sitting on a bench 2000 metres up Japan’s highest mountain in fog and rain.

Boy, seven, had complained of feeling tired so father left him with snacks and a soft drink and continued his climb A man who abandoned his seven-year-old son on Mount Fuji in Japan after the boy complained of feeling tired while on a family hike has been reprimanded by local police. A worker on Japan’s highest mountai

The boy was told to wait for eight hours with only snacks and a soft drink and no money, staff at a mountain hut told police.

Police reprimanded the father over the decision and warned that leaving a child behind was unacceptable.